Life After Breaking Bad: Walt Jr. Exposes The Dark Side Of Child Acting, Money, & Greed | RJ Mitte

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 790 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 134 minutes

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0:00.0	Did you know how big of a deal it was going to be?
0:04.0	No.
0:05.0	No.
0:06.0	My mother would tell me so many stories about my father.
0:11.0	Breaking Bad changed my life in a great way.
0:13.0	It was a dream come true.
0:15.0	But it also showed me how dark this industry can really be.
0:19.0	How have you seen money corrupt people in Hollywood?
0:22.2	People will sacrifice who they are for money, for clout, for whatever that is.
0:27.8	When you have someone that desperately needs it that's willing to do anything, that's where
0:32.7	you get into a very dangerous scenario of power.
0:37.5	It was just one of those days.
0:39.0	You get a letter and it's like your heart drops.
0:42.7	I trusted them and they basically stole everything.
0:46.0	And because of that, I paid more in taxes than I got from Breaking Bad.
0:50.5	Were these like Hollywood elites?
0:52.3	Were these people that people would know?
1:02.7	RJ, thank you so much for coming on the ice coffee hour.
1:05.5	Such a pleasure to be here. I really appreciate it, man. You seem very well adjusted.
1:10.5	Why do you, why do you think so many child actors end up going off the rails or having difficulty later in life?
1:19.1	So I started when I was 12. I was doing like extra work and stuff like that. And, you know, living in, the industry is very different, but living in California and, you know, when you're hot, you're hot and you know living in the industry is very different but living in california and you know when
1:30.3	you're hot you're hot and you're not you're not and when you're a young kid and you're easily
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